Voices, The Peoples News
May 29, 2025, PM
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Venezuelan High Schooler Legally Entered the US to Seek Asylum. Then ICE Detained Him at Immigration Court. The Bronx high school student from Venezuela was trying to do everything right.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/05/27/bronx-high-school-student-detained-by-immigration-ice-agents/
Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem demand ICE agents increase arrests to 3,000 per day: report
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-ordered-triple-number-daily-arrests-2078305
DOJ asks Supreme Court to allow rapid deportations to countries where immigrants have no ties
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/27/trump-supreme-court-deportations-south-sudan-00371595
Trump asks US Supreme Court to intervene in deportations to third countries. The DOJ filing represents its latest trip to the Supreme Court as it seeks a freer hand to pursue President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/27/trump-supreme-court-deportations-third-countries/83884916007/
State Department to begin pulling visas for Chinese college students. The State Department is also expected to revise its visa approval process to enhance the scrutiny of all visa applications from the Chinese government.
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/student-visas-china-us-rubio
Thanks To Donald Trump, The American Dream Is Dead. Donald Trump’s so-called “voluntary deportation” program is yet another example of how he is killing the alleged “American Dream.”
https://newsone.com/6186778/thanks-to-donald-trump-the-american-dream-is-dead/
We Are US Citizens. My Children Are Still Terrified of Being Deported. The Trump administration’s attacks on undocumented and legal immigrants alike are spreading fear and uncertainty.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/19/deportation-child-trump-ice-00299403
The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database. Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-dna-migrant-children-fbi-codis/
ICE just ordered $30 million worth of new technology from Palantir to track immigrants
https://www.businessinsider.com/ice-palantir-new-technology-30-million-visa-overstays-self-deportation-2025-4
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
Elon Musk Made Your Life Worse: The billionaire may be on the outs with Trump. But the damage, much of it cruel and at times life-ruining, will continue to unfold.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/elon-musk-made-your-life-worse/
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
The U.S. debt crisis is worse than you think. We’re sitting around $40 trillion in debt, and we’re running close to a 7% deficit right now.
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/4027349320969-the-us-debt-crisis-is-worse-than-you-think?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MjUxNTI2Njg4LTE3NDg1MTc0NjQzNDA%3D
US International Trade court strikes down Trump’s tariffs
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xgdj9kyero
Why has a US court blocked Donald Trump’s tariffs – and can he get round it? Challenge to president’s policies raises questions about his trade and economic plans
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/29/why-has-a-us-court-blocked-donald-trumps-tariffs-and-can-he-get-round-it
Top Trump economic adviser predicts legislative agenda will make American families $10,000 richer. [I don’t believe this. Too many lies already.]
https://justthenews.com/nation/economy/economic-adviser-predicts-trumps-policies-will-generate-10000-increase-american
State taxpayers may be on the hook for millions after Trump deals them shortfall
https://www.rawstory.com/food-stamps-snap-cuts-2672224932/
Stephen Miller Leads MAGA Meltdown as Judges Tear Down Trump Tariffs
https://www.yahoo.com/news/stephen-miller-leads-maga-meltdown-032002077.html
# Education / Schools / Libraries / Museums
Trump Finds a New Way to Attack Education: Cutting Aid for Students Who Are Parents. The Trump administration proposed eliminating CCAMPIS, a vital child care program for lower-income parenting students.
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/28/trump-aid-student-parents-college-child-care/
Judge blocks Trump from stopping Harvard international admissions. The move follows Harvard suing the administration last week in response to a message from the Department of Homeland Security revoking their Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification.
https://apnews.com/article/harvard-international-students-judge-70a69446b265877b801e91b250547cb4
Judge says US acted improperly in stripping Harvard researcher of visa for smuggling in bio samples
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/judge-rules-us-acted-improperly-stripping-harvard-researcher-visa-smuggling?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
Trump Education Sec. Says Universities Should ‘Be Able to Do Research’ if They Go Along With ‘What the Administration Is Trying to Accomplish’
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/trump-education-sec-says-universities-should-be-able-to-do-research-if-they-go-along-with-what-the-administration-is-trying-to-accomplish/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
The Trump administration’s ever-changing policies on tariffs and trade have injected chaos into the global energy economy. What Will Tariffs Do to the Energy Economy? U.S. renewables stand to lose big in a trade war, but the sting extends to oil and other energy industries, analysts say.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29052025/inside-clean-energy-tariffs-economy/
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Announces Over $1.5 Billion to Repair Roads and Bridges Damaged by Natural Disasters, Including Hurricane Helene
https://highways.dot.gov/newsroom/us-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-announces-over-1-billion-repair-roads
SCOTUS limits judicial authority to block infrastructure projects over environmental concerns. “Courts should afford substantial deference and should not micromanage those agency choices so long as they fall within a broad zone of reasonableness,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote.
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/scotus-limits-judicial-authority-block-infrastructure-projects-over?utm_source=breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
Supreme Court Limits Scope of Nation’s Bedrock Environmental Law: Today’s ruling relieves federal agencies of the obligation to review all foreseeable environmental harms and grants them more leeway to decide what potential environmental harms to analyze, despite what communities may think is important.
https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/supreme-court-limits-scope-of-nations-bedrock-environmental-law-2025-05-29/
Despite backlash, more states are considering laws to make Big Oil pay for climate change. After Vermont and New York passed “climate Superfund” legislation, 11 states have introduced similar bills this year.
https://grist.org/accountability/climate-superfund-law-maryland-california-vermont-new-york-trump-lawsuits/
Terrifying Glacier Collapse Buries Mountain Village in ‘Major Catastrophe.’ Harrowing video footage captured a vast field of debris racing toward the settlement. 90 percent of the Swiss village is buried or destroyed.
https://www.mensjournal.com/travel/glacier-collapse-buries-iconic-alpine-village-of-blatten
# Food / General News
Silence on E. Coli Outbreak Highlights How Trump Team’s Changes Undermine Food Safety
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/food-safety-foodborne-illness-trump-health-agency-cuts-e-coli-outbreak-silence/
# General News
Trump sparks more fears of cognitive decline after fumbling answer on student visas. “Trump doesn’t know what is going on. He is president by tweet only.”
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/trump-sparks-more-allegations-cognitive-35302887
# Gov / Politics
What’s Happened to Our Country? Where is the American soul? How did we become this divided? Has America lost its soul? Did we become too focused on self and individual liberties that we have forgotten how far we have come? Forgotten what we fought for and what is ours to cherish as a nation? Freedom.
https://www.theintelligencer.net/opinion/local-columns/2022/07/whats-happened-to-our-country/
Town Hall Erupts After GOP Congressman Admits To Not Knowing What He Voted For. Nebraska Representative Mike Flood was booed relentlessly at his own town hall Tuesday as he admitted to a roomful of constituents that he had simply not read some parts of Trump’s big, beautiful budget bill.
https://newrepublic.com/post/195777/republican-town-hall-mike-flood-budget
Trump Admin Accused Of Dismissing Charges Against Another MS-13 Leader To Prevent Him From Revealing Pact Between Bukele And The Gang. The man in question is Vladimir Antonio Arevalo-Chavez. A similar accusation was made in the case of Henry Villatoro Santos
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/23/trump-administration-ms-13-leaders-criminal-charges-deportation
Trump administration agrees to return ‘wrongfully’ deported immigrant for first time after battling court orders
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/trump-administration-agrees-to-return-wrongfully-deported-immigrant-for-first-time-after-battling-court-orders/ar-AA1FFwsI?cvid=9159F313C16F4C719FF4369D6FDE703C&ocid=hpmsn
Trump’s new ‘wildly unhinged’ assault is exposing MAGA’s ‘deeper scam.’ President Donald Trump’s assault on Harvard “is a wildly unhinged abuse of power in every way.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-harvard-2672221552/
Tulsi Gabbard’s move accused of opening door to new wave of ‘domestic terrorism’
https://www.rawstory.com/tulsi-trump-domestic-ttero/
# Gov / Politics / Global
Columbia Trustee Got Sued for Securities Fraud — Then Left Her Pharma Firm Under a Cloud. Shoshana Shendelman is reportedly part of a hard-line pro-Israel faction on the Columbia board of trustees.
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/27/columbia-university-trustee-shendelman-sued-pharma/
The Rising Death Toll of the U.S.–Israel Aid Distribution Plan in Gaza. Since a joint U.S.–Israel plan put a nonprofit in charge of aid distribution in Gaza, at least nine people have been killed and 47 injured. “This is what happens when you try to replace the humanitarian system with a political agenda,”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/28/heinous-crime-authorities-say-ten-aid-seekers-killed-in-gaza-in-forty-eight-hours
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Trump is weaponizing the Justice Department to advance his voter suppression plans
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/donald-trump-justice-department-voting-rights-north-carolina/
Trump’s pardon attorney considers full clemency for Oath Keepers and founder Stewart Rhodes over Jan. 6 crimes. Ed Martin is reviewing requests to pardon far-right militia members charged with treason-related crimes
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-pardons-stewart-rhodes-jan-6-ed-martin-b2759341.html
# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
Termination notices expected to go out to all remaining Voice of America employees this week. The move would add to the grueling battle between the network and Trump administration.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/28/voice-of-america-rif-terminations-trump-00372238
# Medicare / Medicaid
Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Will Gut a ‘Medical Lifeline’ for Millions
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-republicans-medicaid-cuts-home-health-care-1235348787/
# Medical / Health News / Covid / Biologicals
UnitedHealth Group faces lawsuit claiming it used ex-employees’ 401(k) funds to defray its own costs
https://www.ainvest.com/news/unitedhealth-group-faces-lawsuit-alleged-401-fund-misuse-2505/
The Aids crisis was set to end by 2030 – now Trump’s cuts will mean 4 million more deaths. HIV infections and deaths from Aids are set to skyrocket in the next five years if US-funded programmes are not reinstated
https://www.the-independent.com/news/health/trump-aid-cuts-hiv-aids-deaths-b2759143.html
Trump blames Europe as deadly impact of US cuts on Aids pandemic grows. Trump lashes out at France and Germany amid growing evidence that HIV patients are being denied life-saving drugs.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-hiv-aids-cuts-treatment-europe-b2757501.html
# Medical Science / Research
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit aimed at stopping the National Science Foundation from cutting off critical research funding at universities across the state and country.
https://www.newsbreak.com/golden-gate-media-1351221/4028495375871-with-millions-at-risk-california-files-lawsuit-to-stop-trump-s-cuts-to-research-grant-funding
# Military / Militia / General News
Warren, Sheehy Announce Bipartisan Fight to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment. “On both sides of the aisle, many of us agree that waste, fraud, and abuse are real problems in our government, and it’s worse when it threatens our military readiness. It’s time to show servicemembers we’ve got their backs and restore their right to fix their own equipment.”
https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/in-fox-news-op-ed-warren-sheehy-announce-bipartisan-fight-to-guarantee-military-right-to-repair-its-equipment
Hypersonic Flight and AI Dogfights: U.S. Defense Startups Set to Redefine Air Power
https://thedebrief.org/hypersonic-flight-and-ai-dogfights-u-s-defense-startups-set-to-redefine-air-power/
Speed Meets Autonomy: Hermeus and Anduril Unveil the Future of Military Aviation
https://theaviationist.com/2025/05/27/quarterhorse-mk-1-first-flight/
# Military / General News / Global
US Marine and Iraq War vet who volunteered to fight for Ukraine killed by a Russian drone strike
https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/world-news/us-marine-and-iraq-war-vet-who-volunteered-to-fight-for-ukraine-killed-by-a-russian-drone-strike/
# Pharmaceuticals
Trump administration cancels $766 million Moderna contract to fight pandemic flu
https://www.thederrick.com/ap/business/trump-administration-cancels-766-million-moderna-contract-to-fight-pandemic-flu/article_713954a2-526d-54de-98dc-4ce5e522bb0d.html
# Science / Science Engineers
New York and New Jersey’s attorneys general have joined a coalition of 16 states suing the Trump administration over what they call unlawful cuts to scientific research and diversity efforts in STEM fields. This will ‘devastate scientific research’: 16 states sue the Trump administration over National Science Foundation directive
https://gothamist.com/news/ny-nj-attorneys-general-sue-trump-administration-over-cuts-to-science-diversity-in-research
Scientists make jaw-dropping breakthrough that transforms human urine into futuristic energy source: ‘Unprecedented momentum.’ Researchers have discovered an efficient, low-carbon way to generate green hydrogen by using urea that’s found in urine and wastewater.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/green-hydrogen-urea-electrolysis-sewage/
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence / Spyware
Vladimir Putin says Russia needs to ‘strangle’ Western tech companies still operating in his country. He was responding to a gripe from a Russian IT provider about competition from Microsoft and Zoom
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/russia_chokehold_tech_firms/
# Transportation / Travel Advisories
Security Alert: Do Not Travel to Venezuela for any reason and Avoid Venezuelan Borders with Colombia, Brazil, and Guyana. The U.S. government warns U.S. citizens against travel to Venezuela for any reason.
https://co.usembassy.gov/security-alert-do-not-travel-to-venezuela-for-any-reason-and-avoid-venezuelan-borders-with-colombia-brazil-and-guyana/
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